Invites Quotes - Page 15

• Who knows who's waiting right now for one of us to invite them into God's family?

  Louie Giglio

  Family, Christian, Religious

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• Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.

  Rose Kennedy

  Health, Expression, People

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• Kindness is the visible expression of a feeling and merciful heart; it is the going forth of a tender and susceptible mind; it claims kindred with the human race; it is all ear to listen-all heart to feel-all eye to examine and to weep-all hand and foot to relieve; it invites the sufferer with kind words, and sends him not empty away.

  John Angell James

  Kindness, Heart, Eye

  John Angell James (1828). “Christian charity explained; or, The influence of religion upon temper stated; in an exposition of the thirteenth chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians”, p.95

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• Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency.

  Wayne Muller

  Gratitude, Sufficiency

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• When all mental activity around who you think you are or what you need for happiness is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in the structure of the mind. I invite you to enter through that crack. Come in through that opening. When you do, the mind is no longer filled with its latest self-definition. In that moment, there is only silence. And in that silence, it is possible to recognize absolute fulfilment: the truth of who you are.

  Gangaji

  Wisdom, Spiritual, Thinking

  "The Diamond in Your Pocket: Discovering Your True Radiance". Book by Gangaji, 2007.

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• When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors to concoct a series of positions deliberately designed to weaken America, they would be hard pressed to beat the current GOP dogma - hobble education, starve the government by slashing taxes to the rich, kneecap attempts to jumpstart the economy by fixating on debt, invite corporations to dominate political discourse, balkanize the population by demonizing minorities and immigrants and let favored religions dictate social policy.

  Neil Steinberg

  Party, Government, America

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• I never invite idiots to my house.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  House, Idiot

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• Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. And calling us to share in God’s suffering love for a hurting world. The small and even overpowering pains of our lives are intimately connected with the greater pains of Christ. Our daily sorrows are anchored in a greater sorrow and therefore a larger hope.

  Henri Nouwen

  Hurt, Pain, Hands

  Henri Nouwen (2004). “Turn My Mourning into Dancing”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

  Alexander Pope

  Ears, Hell, Courtesy

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 149

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• Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon Himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship Him!

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Responsibility, Men

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• Over the past month, Muslims have fasted, taking no food or water during daylight hours, in order to refocus their minds on faith and redirect their hearts to charity. Muslims worldwide have stretched out a hand of mercy to those in need. Charity tables at which the poor can break their fast line the streets of cities and towns. And gifts of food and clothing and money are distributed to ensure that all share in God's abundance. Muslims often invite members of other families to their evening iftar meals, demonstrating a spirit of tolerance.

  George W. Bush

  Inspiration, Heart, Past

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• So when that Angel of the darker Drink, at last shall find you by the river-brink,
  And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul forth to your Lips to quaff-you shall not shrink.

  Omar Khayyam

  Angel, Rivers, Offering

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.164, University of Virginia Press

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• To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end up bombing ordinary city folk. For the US to be bombing Sunni towns all these years later on behalf of Mr. al-Maliki would be to invite terrorism against the US.

  Juan Cole

  Military, Iraq, Government

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• A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

  Bobby Ray Inman

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• The science of the earth... invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of the Creator.

  John William Dawson

  Science, Earth, Worship

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• I invite you to not only love each other more but love each other better.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Love Each Other

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• Jesus invites us to abide in his love. That means to dwell with all that I am in him. It is an invitation to a total belonging, to full intimacy, to an unlimited being-with. The light of the Spirit reveals to us that love conquers all fear.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Jesus, Mean

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• In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine.

  Amy Poehler

  Media, Heartless, Pairs

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• There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Fighting, Walking Meditation

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “The Art of Power”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Son, Winning

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• Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a project of self-salvation, to using God and others in order to get power and control for themselves. We are just going about it in different ways. Even though both sons are wrong, however, the father cares for them and invites them both back into his love and feast.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Father, Son

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.16, Penguin

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• Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wise, Intelligent, Men

  Desiderius Erasmus, Betty Radice (1990). “Praise of Folly”

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• We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Terrorism, Terrorist

  Address to the Nation on Iraqi Elections, www.cnn.com. December 18, 2005.

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• I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Prayer, Believe

  Rick Warren (2004). “What on Earth Am I Here For?”

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• Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

  Heywood Hale Broun

  Golf, Games, Attention

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